Dagobert Michelsen <[email protected]> writes: > Am 24.08.2009 um 03:04 schrieb Ben Walton: >> I've discovered an interesting bit of solaris archaeology today and I >> wanted to ask those with longer solaris memory why such a thing is >> still supported. >> >> Long before I ever encountered a shell, ^ was the symbol used to >> separate commands in a pipeline. It seems that solaris' /bin/sh is >> still allowing this in some cases. The following script demonstrates >> it.
> So, either the authors are not well informed, or Solaris 10 is not a > modern unix ;-) Based however on an "old" distribution: BSD and with roots even farther. It means that a script written in the 70s still works! > After reading a bit more I learned that this was already in the > precursor of the Bourne > Shell, the "Thompson Shell" provided with Unix v4: > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson_shell> > This must have been sometime after 1971, the year I was born 8-) Nice lesson in humility, isn't it? -- Peter _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers
